Title: The Shadow Returns and The Stage is Set

In a hidden place inside of Italy.

Inside of Demons Paradise headquarter that is located in the depths of the Italian underworld.

An extravagant office that was build for its boss, with the finest artwork that they had stolen and decorated by people skulls and bones that they had killed. Also on the left side their stands rows of tied up little girls and on the right there stands a row of tied up little boys that they had all kidnap from orphanages around the world and mainly in Italy.

They are use by the boss to get rid of his stress and by that I mean raping their innocents. Nasty if I had to offer an opinion about the matter. So many of the kidnap children already had this dead look in their eyes and had already given up on living another day of their miserable lives. If one was to give them a chance to be free then all they would do is kill themselves in order to escape living in such a painful world.

So that is why they are all tied up on the walks and is force fed by the boss henchmen and is clean by them as well. But when they grew older with time, they would be sent to a lab for human experimentation to be done on them in order to test a wide variety of nasty drugs that had deadly side-effects. So no matter in who perspective their lives are quite terrible without doubt and Tanya twin sister would have join them if she had not died beforehand and Tanya killing their henchmen that was sent after her.

In this office a large Mahogany desk rest in the middle of this room and a rocking chair made with the best material they could find for the boss to sit in.

The boss of this mafia, Caesar, sits there with a contemplating look as he stare at the mystical bottle that is in front of him. While Sebastian is standing there at his side in case something might happen to him. Which he hope it does and it kills him, so he could be free to make another contract with someone else.

He held this bottle up to his eye level and looked for any strangeness that it might contain. But all he could see is its bright obsidian black glass. That it made it difficult for him to tell what the substance inside might be.

It could be poison for all he knew, but the number 1 would not need to stoop so low as to use poison to kill him, so it must not be poison that is sent by him. So what is inside of the mystical obsidian bottle is completely unknown to him other then the fact that number 1 has told him, that his power would progress by leaps and bounds if he drinks it.

So without a second thought, he tore the cap off the bottle and drunk it like a beast until every drop of its, is in his system.

Gulp!

(The taste of its content, does not taste like anything, not even water...) that was what Caesar thought as he drunk every lasted bit of it.

He then slam the bottle on the desk as he look at himself in confusion, because he did not feel anything different from before... except a strong sense of weariness.

“Master, how was it, do you feel any different from before?” Sebastian ask as he look to him that is also puzzle by something.

(I feel... tire... very... very... tire....) that was all he could think off as his consciousness slip further and further from him. But in the last moment.

Boom!

As he was swaying from side to side, a powerful wave of darkness burst from his body and it sent everything flying near him.

“WAHHHH!!!! IT HURTS, IT HURTS LIKE CRAZY!!!!!!” Caesar scream out loud and tear at his own face like he is going crazy.

As he went around and smash everything like a beast that had gone out of control, Sebastian instead move away from his master that had went mad, and from the wave of darkness that turn their surrounding into a sinister black luster.

He use his demonic energy to protect himself from his master wave of darkness that threaten to taint everything that is surround them in the abyss of negativity. Even the little girls and boys that had been hit with the wave of darkness scream in pain then die moments later.

However that is not the end of it. The kids corpses begins to rot and decay at a rapid speed until... They turn into skeletons then they were cover in a black tar like substance and morph into a bunch of monstrosity.... and something much more hideous...

ROAR!!!!!

They roared loudly in unison and the windows instantly shatter due to the intensity of their voices combine. Their eyes glow like that of a crimson star. Their bodies dripping with that black tar like substance and they stood like that stone statue unmoving, but one can feel the menacing glare full of malice as they watch him standing there with his guard up.

However his master transformation was not done. His right eye color change from that of black to an eerie crimson serpent eye. And black tar flood to the right side of his body and cover it whole, while leaving the left side untouched. But that was only the beginning as to what had happen next.

Shatter!!! Bang!! Crack!!!

Streams of darkness that came from every corner of the globe seem to be gather at his master right side and bright crimson slit eyes appear on his sight and began to suck in the stream of darkness that flood him from all sides and began to glow brighter with time as it draw more and more darkness to itself. Until finally their was a second wave of darkness that had burst from his master body, which sent even him, a Demon, flying to the broken walks and crash into them with a loud thud until he had stop from the momentum.

“ROAR!!!!!” His master now consume by the darkness had began to rampage about like a wild beast and destroy his entire office and several facility of their headquarters until he was done and had regain his senses. But by that time, all the subordinate that was inside of their headquarter had been slaughter by him.

However, Sebastian dare not to stop him, because he knows that he is incapable of stopping his master without using his full power on him, but since he was binded to him, he can't attack his master with full power. So he could only stay at a distance and watch as all the work he had done for his selfish and incompetent master had disappear into ruin in a single day. Which only made him angrier as a result because he was planning to make this headquarter his in the future after his coup, now he can't even do that, because it is now only a pile of ruins.

Once he was done with his rampage, dust was all over the place and in the air, which covered his entire field of vision, but he suddenly heard a laugh... a laugh of something that is not like that of a human at all nor like that of his monotone master, but its laugh ripple throughout his entire surrounding.

“Hahaha!!! I am finally heal from the humiliation that she had dealt me with!!” it laugh with his masters body that is completely under his control except for his left side for some reason, because the expression that he had made did not match his expression that is on his right side.

However, since it could speak, he flew down from his location that he had hid in and approach it with caution and asked.

“Who are you and what had you done to my master?” he ask with a cold tone and had a threatening gaze as he scrutinize him in sight.

When it had heard him, it turn around and look at him with dark smile on his face that sent shivers down his spine.

“A Demon? A that is the perfect body for me compare to this dirty little X-User!!” when it finish saying that.

A black fog flooded out from its mouth and came straight at him. But he was prepared and blocked with his Demonic KI and rush at it with hellfire on both of his fist.

Hellfire, is a special type of flame that only demons would have, and once it touch any living being, it will not stop burning until either their soul or body is consume by the flames with nothing left behind.

“Hellfire, huh? What a delicious fire to be devour by me...” it said as his fist that is full of raging fire from hell came upon contact with its face and smash it to the concrete grounds.

Boom!!!

A cloud of dust shot up into the air and a powerful shockwave blasted all the rubble around them into oblivion. But to Sebastian surprise, he felt like his powers are being drain by something.

“Hellfire, it is a flame that can burn any living being into oblivion, but to me it is only a delicious food that I devour as a snack” it said as he saw that it was not effected by the flames of hell on his fist. So with quick judgment, he back away immediately to put distance between them. And look at it with a surprise face and a confuse one as did not understand why his flames did not burn him into nothingness.

“The flames of hell definitely pack a punch, but only to being with physical flesh and weak spiritual bodies.” it said, as it rise from the rubble in his masters body unharmed.

“So are you saying that you are not a being with flesh and blood? And does not have a weak soul? So what are you exactly?” it ask cautiously as he realize that he is quite a bind right now, because one of his strongest cards is obsolete.

“Oh? I thought that a demon like you would know better then anyone, after serving this garbage for so long..” when it said that a powerful wave of darkness flooded him from all direction, intending to devour him. But he immediately use one of his hidden trump card and teleported away immediately, because even he knows that touching the darkness that came from it was dangerous to its existence.

“What do you mean serve, this bastard enslave me with the help of Enigma X” he said this after he had appear behind him using teleportation. And rise both of his fist high into the air and drop it down like hammer of judgment. But before he can hit him.

His hand stop mid-air like something had just binded him and froze him in mid-air like time had stop. But he instantly broke free and teleported away from it.

“How are you able to use that?!!” he scream in surprise as he witness it use the cursed soul gear that had binded him to the human world and to his incompetent master for all these years.

Astral Chain of Obedience. The evil chain that can steal away the free will to all those who touch it and its ability can force others to comply and become sub-servant to the master of those chain every wish and demand.

“Oh? This? Well, I can't completely use it, since I am only able to partially control his soul. But it is resisting my control the more I try to use it, but still, it is enough to stop you and allow me to have good talk with you demon.” after it said that, it look at him with its crimson eyes that seem to be staring deeply into him in order to search for a soul.

Which made Sebastian feel really uncomfortable. As it kept staring at him, but he can't make a rash or else he will be in danger. Since this thing... is not a being that he can defeat with restraints on.

However what it said after shocked him.

“Join me and I shall release you from your bind and take you to my master and grant you a boost in power like you never had before working with this sleazy and incompetent human, so what do you say?” It said as it looked him in the eyes with its crimson eyes that seem to be able to even compel him to obey if it wish for it.

“Even if what you said is true.... Why do you want to invite me? You have some type of motive don't you?” he is a demon, so he can easily resist such a low level mind control from this blob of darkness.

“Oh, so you notice, as expect a demon who are masters at making deals”

“What do you want?”

“On Thursday grant me your body to battle an enemy of mine...”

“Why do you want my body?”

“my previous host body still exist, so I can't take over another normal humans body at the moment, and your body is the only thing that can held my current power and since you lack a soul, it would be a very tight fit inside of you.”

“You think that will agree to the demand of such a disgusting creature like you?”

“Hahaha!! I don't care if you agree or not, I will take it by force if I have to! But I thought that you have potential, so don't make it hard on the both of us here.”

“.... Who is your master?”

“..... You do not need to know yet...”

“I see..... then try to fight me and take my body then...”

“You will regret this you know?”

“I am a demon, so why would I care about regret when I was born out of my own sin and vice?”

“Hahaha!! I just want you more and more demon, but today I am out of time, but next time I will comeback and claim that body of yours!”

“You sound more of demon then me, you little filth...”

“I will take that as a compliment, Well, before I go, I want you to pass a message to a little girl and her brother that you guys are about to go after, tell her that I,The Shadow, has came Back to Destroy HER and Mind Rape her little brother for defying ME!!!...” after it had said that, the right side of darkness that cover his master entire right body instantly shatter apart and return to normal.

His look relaxed as he saw his master drop to the floor like puppet that had its strings cut and is now sleeping on the ground without a single bit of movement.

“Finally, it is gone... ha...but there is more work to do now....” he said as he look upon the rubble and dust that he have to clean up and repair before his master is awake... so he got to work immediately.

(Still, I could not believe that thing was only a Shadow Rank Z-Monster.... even though its strength far surpass mine..... sigh..) he sigh quietly in his own mind as he quickly pick up and repair the building at a astonishing speed due to his experience, since his master tend to break things a lot and his Constitution as a demon that will never tire. But he now need to get new subordinate to replace the bosses old one, which would be the most annoying part of all in his opinion.

“Ha... it can't be help... but still why does it want destroy that little girl and her brother though?...” he thought as he continue to work, because that shadow seem to be able to even destroy a country by itself, so for it to be this enrage over a little girl and her brother, then there must be a reason for it.... but whatever the reason is, he does not know or understand it yet at this time....

This was the first meeting between Sebastian, The Demon, and The nameless, Super Shadow.... and the day that it has vow vengeance on Tanya and Len after its return.... however with its appearance, all the players that Tanya has to defeat in order to get her wish and live another day peacefully is now beginning to move...

Chapter 9 End

Author note: if this chapter is lower in quality to you guys then that is because I am feeling a bit sluggish and tired today for going to school. Since I had to wake up early for every morning with 4 hours of sleep, so that had accumulated a lot of fatigue within me for this week, and had to run 1.8 miles for a track test today, which completely drain my mental stamina for today. So this chapter would not be proof-read by me again, until Saturday and also if one can spot out a mistake, then it would be much appreciated.